Articles by Amy Allocco
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Amy Allocco invited to deliver five lectures in Europe in Spring 2022
May 31, 2022
While teaching at Elon’s Center in London this past semester, Allocco presented her research at universities in four countries
Amy Allocco presents paper as part of double panel at the Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
November 2, 2021
Allocco worked with Xenia Zeiler to organize the two linked panels, “Intensification vs. Sweetening? New Patterns in Contemporary Hindu Representation and Practice,” as one outcome of the Collaborative International Research Grant they were awarded by the American Academy of Religion
Amy Allocco delivers an invited lecture at the University of Tübingen
December 14, 2020
The lecture, “Living with the Dead in Hindu South India,” draws on Allocco’s current ethnographic research project and was sponsored by the Asia-Orient Institute.
Amy Allocco publishes a co-edited double issue of the journal ‘Fieldwork in Religion’
November 9, 2020
The journal’s double issue, which includes twelve peer-reviewed articles, focuses on the ethnography of India across the longue durée and includes several generations of scholars.
Amy Allocco publishes an article on Hindu death, deification, and domestication narratives in The Journal of Hindu Studies
October 26, 2020
Allocco’s article draws on more than a decade of ethnographic research and interviews with one Hindu family in South India to explore the hermeneutical issues – what Allocco calls “interpretive ambivalence” – that arise from narrative multiplicity.
Amy Allocco is named co-coordinator of the International Association for the History of Religion Women Scholars Network
October 12, 2020
Allocco will serve for a five-year term alongside Milda Ališauskienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) and lead a women's mentoring initiative among members of the Women Scholars Network.
Amy Allocco is awarded a Collaborative International Research Grant
February 14, 2020
Amy Allocco has received a Collaborative International Research Grant from the American Academy of Religion to support joint fieldwork in India, a symposium, and a special journal issue with a colleague from the University of Helsinki.
Allocco publishes book chapter on feminist anthropology and mentoring
December 17, 2019
The chapter is included in a volume that grew out of an April 2018 symposium at Colgate University honoring two of Allocco’s undergraduate mentors.
Allocco presents “Shifting Technologies of Reflection” in the symposium that she co-convened at the Annual Conference on South Asia
October 25, 2019
Allocco worked with Dr. Jennifer Ortegren (Middlebury College) to organize the full-day symposium, “Shifting Sites, Spaces and Selves: Analyzing Ethnographic Practices in South Asia Over Time,” which included 13 presenters and attracted a robust audience.
Amy Allocco presents invited lecture at the University of Helsinki
May 13, 2019
Allocco’s invited talk at the University of Helsinki is the last of five she has presented about her current project, "Domesticating the Dead: Invitation and Installation Rites in Tamil South India," this academic year.